Peanuts are one of those brilliantly versatile ingredients which seems just as at home in a dessert as it does in a savoury dish. They’re salty, punchy and full of protein and oils making them a brilliant backbone for this soup. While the peanuts bring the flavour, the sweet potatoes offer a robust backing…
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Honey and Whiskey Spiked Goats Cheese and Onion Tarts
There is something so beautiful about the marriage of goats cheese and onion that it isn’t a surprise that this gorgeous couple are so often paired together on starters and nibbles the world over. The sticky sweet jaminess of the caramelised onions, usually with a subtly acidic quality, blends incredibly with the creamy yet…
Chilli Chocolate Mousse
There is something truly phenomenal about a chocolate mousse – like a ganache that’s holding it’s breath, filled with air. The gentle crackle as the spoon pops the thousands of tiny bubble suspended beneath the surface is one of those delicate sounds that just brings pure joy. It derives, of course, from the whipped egg…
Cinnamon Roasted Pork with Parsnip Purée
Cinnamon is one of those spices which is grossly underused in savoury cooking – we all know the familiar taste of a posh Autumnal coffee with cinnamon spicing, or Christmas baked goods offering a warming feeling inside. This delightfully snappy bark often appears as part of a spice mixtures of food from the subcontinent too,…
Chilli, Lime and Feta Potato Salad
Potato Salads are a classic for a reason – the robust potato, a friend for all occasions, is the perfect vehicle for the creamy, slightly sour dressing that comes with a potato salad. There’s room for plenty of other vegetables in there – pickles, capers, sweetcorn, onions. The sauce can be adapted for greater decadence…
Grilled Lemonade
That’s right, you read it – grilled lemonade. While it may initially sound totally impossible, you’ll soon see that not only is it possible – it is THE way to drink fresh lemonade. Fresh lemonade has a delicious mix of sweet and sour that provides a cool, crisp freshness on a hot day. By dipping…
Banoffee Pie
Desserts are something I rarely tackle – I’m not a huge lover of baking and have always favoured savoury food over outright sweetness. However, it suddenly dawned on me just how long it’s been since I had this classic dish and I couldn’t get it out of my mind. The name – a rather obvious…
Black Pudding Scotch Eggs
Scotch Eggs are perhaps the greatest picnic food ever made. The delicious, multi-layered treat with savoury sausage, a gorgeously soft egg and that crunchy exterior. Eat them hot or cold, as part of a meal or as a snack, breakfast, lunch or dinner. This particular version utilises the deep, gorgeous richness of black pudding…
Buck’s Fizz (Mimosa) Cake
For a fair while in my adult life I wondered what these “mimosas” that I kept hearing about – usually in relation to American brunches – were. It was only a year or two ago that I discovered it was nothing more than ordinary Buck’s Fizz – the official drink of Christmas morning here in…
Rum Flambéed Pineapple with Berries and Ice Cream
There is such a joy to flambéing food – perhaps it appeals to that inner neanderthal in all of us that feels innately proud upon creation of fire. Perhaps it’s just because it feels cool holding a pan of flaming food. However, it must be remembered that it is so much more than just showiness,…
